Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-10-07
ORlGINAL AND BORROWED.
A red-haired colored infant IS
one of the curiOsities of Boston.

Ilduhliu COuuIyt ciAIOOh miOo
from that city.
A legal case was recently argued
and decided on a railroad train
while the Judges and lawyers were
on their way to attend court at
Montfort, Wis. This is progress
In every sense of the word.
A Chicago pastor recently pray
ed az follows: 40 Lord, we ask
thee TO send the SKINNED milk
dairyman in haste to thy creama-
tory; and may the recording angel
chalk down every adIlteration."
In Chicago a hotel steward
makes good income by teaching
inexperienced people the art OF
dining. IF there was more OF that
sort of education the world would
be happier and bad manners be
fewer.
A sad.looking man not long
since visited scores Of Ohio farm
ers, asking them to sign a pledge
not to kill any song birds for a
year. Afterwards these pledges
returned to the signers IN the shape
Of promisory notes.
Horace Allen, a grand nephew
of Ethan Allen, and man eighty
three years old, has arrived in
Albany, n. ", from his home in
Delaware. Ohio, having made the
journey of six hundred and seventy
FIVE miles on foot, and pushing a
wheelbarrow.
or the fleen daily newspapers
published in Alabama, eleven are
in favor of a high protective tariff.
This shows the course political
events are taking in the South,
and free traders should trim their
sails accordingly. Mr.. Watterson
and the Star-Eyed Goddess do not
have the same hold in this section
they once had.
An clipping Missouri woman left
this touching epistle for her hus-
baud s'Dear John-I am gone
and you will never see me again.
hope that my leaving will not cause
You any unnecessary sorrow, and
after death claims you as a victim
may the flowers bloom on your
grave and emit their sweets and
fragrance"
A woman's nature is sometimes
peculiar. In California q rich |
widow determined to disinherlt her
daughter, because OF her elOpe-
meut, bat when she heard that the
groO us parents had turned against |
the young couple, she declared that
her daughter was as good as any
body, and then presented the bride
and groom with a home and a
generous supply of money.
g. A. Seymour, who was arrest
ed in Danvile last month on the
charge of bigamy, and who was
sent to Chatham for trial, the first
wife living in the county, was tried
last week, found guilty and gwen
three years in the penitentiary.-
The Chatham Tribune says that
during the trial both wives we're
present, and that when the jury
retired his first wife went IN the
bar and gave him kiss. The
second wife, who was looking on,
went up and gave him another
kiss.
In Boston few days ago the
Rev. w. +. Davis was tried in the
superior court for ''preaching the
gospel on the commons without
license" and the jury, after being
out two hours, brought in a verdict
Of guilty.
That same old Puritan law for
hanging witches must still be in
force in that piOus region of free
speech. More than a hundred
years ago we are told of a similar
case that arose in Virginia wherein
three Baptist preachers we're tried
for "preaching the gospel contrary
to law" Patrick Henry was their
counsel, and when the indictment
was read he rose and said {; "May
it please your worships, what did
I hear read Did | hear 1t distinct
ly, or was it mistake of my own !
Did 1 hear an expression that these
men, whom your wOrships are
about TO try for a misdemeanOr,
are charged with preaching the
Gospel Of the Son Of God"
The preachers we're acquitted
aud no such trial or law has ever
been heard of since in Virginia.
The Roanoke Sun gives the fol-
loving parody on the Roanoke Con
vention:
1.-THE Democratic party in Con-
vention assembled cOngratulates
the people upon the continue in &
power Of the "best peOple"-peOple \
who have descended from the II. r. 4
v. and would always remain 10 Of |;
fac, as they have no other way Of
making a living. Again invoking |
the popular verdict in their behalf, c
we point with pride to pledges
faithfully nave and never per- ,
formed :
At GreenvllIe, Tenn, Saturday, I
w IT, n Nilhorn mamhar of tha .